General Awareness Test (Feb - 15) - Set 4

ANSWER: Annual Festival at Rashtrapati Bhavan

Explanation:
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will open the annual“Udyanotsav” of Rashtrapati Bhavan on February 13, 2015.

ANSWER: Himachal Pradesh

Explanation:
This 19 Crore Rupee project funded by the Union government will help in connecting 114 police stations in the state besides 13 district headquarters, 26 sub-divisional police officers and three police ranges. Himachal was the first state in the country to launch this project prepared by the Union Home Ministry after Mumbai attack of 26/11.

ANSWER: Yemen

Explanation:
The U.S. Embassy in Yemen is the third in an Arab country that has closed since the turmoil of the Arab Spring began in December 2010. The other two were in Damascus, Syria, which was closed in Feb 2012, and Tripoli, Libya, which was closed in July 2014.

ANSWER: Christchurch & Melbourne

Explanation:
This World Cup 2015 is jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand as the event returned to the region after 23 years.

ANSWER: Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs

Explanation:
He is the grandson of Princess Gayatri Devi and son of Tripurasundari Devi and Swaraup Gopal Raj Urs. He will continue the Dasara traditions of the Wadiyar dynasty and carry forward the protracted legal battle over the acquisition of palace with the State Government.

ANSWER: Gurpreet Singh

Explanation:
He was given the National Science Foundation Career award for his research on Nano sheets. He is an assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Kansas State University.

ANSWER: River, its catchment area, chemicals and crisis

Explanation:
The theme of river festival is River, its catchment area, chemicals and crisis. More than 100 participants will discuss topics like effects of chemicals used in agriculture on forests, wild life and human beings. Success stories on natural farming will also be part of discussion.

ANSWER: To Monitor the Sun

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: New Delhi

Explanation:
This meeting was held to enhance cooperation in the fields of bilateral investment, infrastructure, SMEs, agriculture, health, energy, skill development & entrepreneurship, pharmaceuticals and tourism.

ANSWER: Sunrise

Explanation:
Sunrise is the maker of one of the top calendar apps for iOS and Android. It currently supports Gmail accounts and Facebook events / birthdays from the social network.

ANSWER: National Dalit Movement for Justice.

Explanation:
The tool was launched with an aim to monitor atrocities perpetrated against Dalits and Adivasis and to deliver timely and speedy justice.

ANSWER: Ammu

Explanation:
Ammu also known as Great Hornbill is the State bird of Kerala and was selected as the Mascot of the Games to reflect state’s concern for conservation of this species. The mascot found its place in the record books for its play, Kalikkunna Kuttikalkkayi Bharatham Kathirikkunnu (India Awaits Children Who Play) featuring the bird in lead role. The play was staged in 147 schools in Kerala.

ANSWER: Krishna Chaudhary

Explanation:
He succeeded Subhas Goswami. He is a 1979-batch Bihar cadre IPS officer.

ANSWER: Apple Inc.

Explanation:
Apple has double market value compared to other tech giants including Oracle, IBM, Google, Microsoft etc.

ANSWER: 13th February

Explanation:
The theme of the World Radio Day 2015 is ‘Youth and Radio’.

ANSWER: Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd.

Explanation:
The board of India Cements Ltd. has cleared the proposal for transfer of IPL Franchise rights of Chennai Super Kings to its wholly owned subsidiary Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd.

ANSWER: Aditya Birla Chemicals (India) Ltd

Explanation:
The board of Directors of Grasim Industries Ltd. has recently approved the proposed merger of Aditya Birla Chemical Ltd with Grasim Industries.

ANSWER: Pramod Asthana

Explanation:
He is a 1986-batch senior IPS officer. Other two members in the SIT are Rakesh Kapoor, a retired judge and Kumar Gyanesh, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) in Delhi.

ANSWER: ITC

Explanation:
ITC has entered into asset purchase agreements with Johnson & Johnson Ltd, India, and Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd, Singapore for the purchase of the ‘Savlon’ and ‘Shower To Shower’ trademarks and other intellectual property, primarily for use in India.

ANSWER: Ashton Carter

Explanation:
He will succeed Chuck Hagel.

ANSWER: Bengaluru City-Ernakulam Intercity Express

Explanation:
In this accident, 9 people were killed are more than 40 people were injured.

ANSWER: One Rupee

Explanation:
An RBI press release issued from Mumbai has informed that the notes, to be printed by the Government of India will soon be back into circulation. The government had discontinued printing of one rupee notes in November 1994 due to higher printing costs.

ANSWER: BrahMos

Explanation:
BrahMos has a range of 290 km and can carry a conventional warhead of up to 300 kg.

ANSWER: General Electric

Explanation:
Fifty per cent of the products manufactured from this unit will be exported to other GE global sites. General Electric’s Chakan-based multi-modal facility will support GE’s global operations as well as cater to the growing demand from the Indian market.

ANSWER: None

Explanation:
Arvind Kejriwal has decided not to keep any portfolio with him. He will only look after the overall functioning of the Delhi Government.

ANSWER: 56,000

Explanation:
Under 3rd National Lok Adalat cases were taken up in the Supreme Court, High Courts, district-level courts and taluka-level courts across the country (except Assam and Uttar Pradesh). The first edition of National Lok Adalat was held in 2013 and disposed around 71.50 lakh cases. In its second edition in 2014 a record of sorts was made with the disposal of around 1.25 crore cases on a single day.

ANSWER: Re-Invest India 2015

Explanation:
Re-Invest India 2015 is a platform to engage bankers to come up with innovative financing models for renewable energy.

ANSWER: State Bank of India

Explanation:
SBI committed Rs. 75,000 crore for generation of 15,000 MW of renewable energy in the next 5 years.

ANSWER: Services

Explanation:
Services won total 159 medals including 91 Gold Medals. The second spot was achieved by Kerala (54 Gold Medals) and the third spot was achieved by Haryana (40 Golds).

ANSWER: Goa

Explanation:
The 36th edition of National Games would be held at Goa in 2017.

ANSWER: Steven Finn

Explanation:
He took the wicket of Brad Haddin, Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Johnson off the final three balls of the match.

ANSWER: Virat Kohli

Explanation:
He broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar for scoring highest runs against Pakistan in a World Cup innings. Sachin Tendulkar scored 98 off 75 balls against Pakistan in the 2003 World Cup.

ANSWER: Sunil Chhetri

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

ANSWER: West Bengal

Explanation:
The scheme is aimed at helping the farmers to recover from crop loss due to floods and natural calamities. According to official sources the Agriculture Department has also taken some other steps for the benefit of farmers. The State Government has also fixed the selling price of paddy at 1 thousands 360 rupees per quintal.

ANSWER: Sri Lanka

Explanation:
The two countries also signed three other pacts, on cooperation in agriculture, culture, and Sri Lanka's participation in the Nalanda University Project. The nuclear pact signed between India and Sri Lanka would facilitate cooperation in the transfer and exchange of knowledge and expertise, sharing of resources, capacity building and training of personnel in peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

ANSWER: Patna High Court

Explanation:
A Division Bench comprising Justice Iqbal Ahmad Ansari and Justice Samrendra Pratap Singh on 16th feb’15 passed the order on a petition filed by JD(U) Member of Legislative Council Neearaj Kumar who had pleaded for a blanket ban on Manjhi Government for taking any policy decisions.

ANSWER: R R Patil

Explanation:
He was among the longest serving home ministers of Maharashtra.

ANSWER: Geeta Varadan & Tessy Thomas

Explanation:
Geeta Vardan is a Director of Advanced Data Processing Research Institute of ISRO and Tessy Thomas is a Director of Advanced Systems Laboratory of DRDO.

ANSWER: Yuvraj Singh

Explanation:
Yuvraj Singh was followed by Deinesh Kartik worth Rs. 10.5 Crore.

ANSWER: Himachal Pradesh

Explanation:
The budget of the state would be present on 11th March’15.